Loom and spindle : or, Life among the early mill girls : with a sketch of "The Lowell offering" and some of its contributors /

Loom and spindle : or, Life among the early mill girls : with a sketch of "The Lowell offering" and some of its contributors /

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Author / Creator:Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson, 1825-1911.
Imprint:New York : T.Y. Crowell, c1898.
Description:vii, 216 p., 1 leaf of plates ; 18 cm.
Language:English
Series:The Gerritsen collection of women's history ; no. 2409.1
Gerritsen collection of women's history ; no. 2409.1.
Subject:
Lowell offering.
Women -- Employment -- Massachusetts -- Lowell.
Factory system.
Lowell (Mass.) -- History.
Format: Microform Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3554716
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Other title:Life among the early mill girls.
Notes:Microfiche. Sanford, N.C. : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1980. -- 3 sheets ; 11 x 15 cm. -- (The Gerritsen collection of Women's history ; no. 2409.1)
Summary:A "Lowell girl" traces the growth of Lowell, Mass. from a small factory town employing single Yankee women to an industrial city populated by immigrant laborers.

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